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226 Many depart from here after eating what they had amassed in previous births; shall they have any business whatever in the next world?

The animals which live in the water, dry land, the fourteen worlds, and all creation&mdash;

What they say Thou alone knowest; for them too Thou carest.

Saith Nanak, the saints hunger to praise Thee; the true Name is their support.

In everlasting joy they abide day and night: may I obtain the dust of the feet of such virtuous men!

Guru Nanak and Shaikh Brahm discussed the question of the disposal of the dead. The Shaik maintained that a man who was burned would either go to hell or not rise at the day of judgement. Guru Nanak The ashes of the Musalman fall into the potter's clod;

Vessels and bricks are fashioned from them; they cry out as they burn.

The poor ashes burn and weep, and sparks fly from them.

Nanak, the Creator who made the world, knoweth whether it is better to be burned or buried.

Without the true Guru none hath found God: without the true Guru none hath found God.

God hath put Himself into the true Guru; He hath made manifest and proclaimed this.

Salvation is ever obtained by meeting the true Guru who hath banished worldly love from within him.

Best are the meditations of him who hath fixed his mind on the True One:

He hath found the Giver of life to the world.